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Blanquette de veau

Name: Blanquette de veau
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1.2 kg veal shoulder or breast cubed veal; 6 cups water; 1 studded with cloves onion; 2 cloves whole spices; 3 chunked carrot; 1 leek; 1 stick celery; 1 bay leaf (indian bay leaf); 1/2 tsp dried thyme; 250 g button mushrooms button mushroom; 3 1/2 tbsp butter; 1/3 cup maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 3/4 cup crème fraîche; 2 yolks egg yolk; Lemon, juice of 1/2; Salt, to taste; a pinch white pepper; 1 1/2 cups to serve rice

Veal in a silky white sauce with mushrooms. French grandmother cooking at its gentlest.

150 minTime

48 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayVeal and mushrooms in velouté with cream and yolk.

The original

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48 gproteinsame

4 gfibresame

150minutessame

Classic blanquette de veau.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Veal1.2 kg veal shoulder or breast, cubed

Water6 cups

Onion1, studded with cloves

Whole spices2 cloves

Carrot3, chunked

Leek1

Celery1 stick

Bay leaf (indian bay leaf)1

Dried thyme½ tsp

Button mushroom250 g button mushrooms

Butter3½ tbsp

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)⅓ cup

Crème fraîche¾ cup

Egg yolk2 yolks

Lemonjuice of 1/2

Saltto taste

White peppera pinch

Rice1½ cups, to serve

Method

6 steps

1Cover the veal with cold water, bring to a boil, then drain and rinse the meat.
2Return the veal to the pot with fresh water, the clove studded onion, carrots, leek, celery, bay and thyme. Simmer gently.
3Cook the mushrooms in a little butter with a squeeze of lemon.
4Melt the rest of the butter, stir in flour without browning, then whisk in 750 ml strained stock. Simmer.
5Off the heat, whisk the crème fraîche with the yolks and lemon, mix in a ladle of sauce, then stir it all back in.
6Add the veal, carrots and mushrooms and warm gently without boiling. Serve with rice.

Serve it like this

Spoon over white rice in warm shallow bowls, with carrots and mushrooms on top and parsley if you like.

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Blanquette de veau

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